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Interesting VT alumni distribution numbers....

I was researching some alumni numbers by state for a thread over on the football board and found some interesting numbers. These came from the Alumni Association's "Virginia Tech Magazine" Summer 2013 edition. Excluding Virginia, these are the top states (ie: over 1,000) by number of VT alumni:

That distribution has a definite northeast flavor with 37,775 alumni coming from 11 northern states (including DC) that top 1,000 (MD,PA,NJ,NY,OH,WV,MA,IL,DC,CT,MI). Only 6 southern states have over 1,000 living alumni, for a total of 32,504 (NC,FL,TX,GA,TN,AL).

The biggest surprise: California comes in at number 3, behind only Maryland and North Carolina.

I would have to assume that the current student population is probably similarly distributed.

I just thought these were interesting numbers in the context of conference affinity.

Last edited by Culpeper Hokie; Tue Sep 17 2013 at 01:29 AM.

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I was researching some alumni numbers by state for a thread over on the football board and found some interesting numbers. These came from the Alumni Association's "Virginia Tech Magazine" Summer 2013 edition. Excluding Virginia, these are the top states (ie: over 1,000) by number of VT alumni:

That distribution has a definite northeast flavor with 37,775 alumni coming from 11 northern states (including DC) that top 1,000 (MD,PA,NJ,NY,OH,WV,MA,IL,DC,CT,MI). Only 6 southern states have over 1,000 living alumni, for a total of 32,504 (NC,FL,TX,GA,TN,AL).

The biggest surprise: California comes in at number 3, behind only Maryland and North Carolina.

I would have to assume that the current student population is probably similarly distributed.

I just thought these were interesting numbers in the context of conference affinity.

I was researching some alumni numbers by state for a thread over on the football board and found some interesting numbers. These came from the Alumni Association's "Virginia Tech Magazine" Summer 2013 edition. Excluding Virginia, these are the top states (ie: over 1,000) by number of VT alumni:

That distribution has a definite northeast flavor with 37,775 alumni coming from 11 northern states (including DC) that top 1,000 (MD,PA,NJ,NY,OH,WV,MA,IL,DC,CT,MI). Only 6 southern states have over 1,000 living alumni, for a total of 32,504 (NC,FL,TX,GA,TN,AL).

The biggest surprise: California comes in at number 3, behind only Maryland and North Carolina.

I would have to assume that the current student population is probably similarly distributed.

I just thought these were interesting numbers in the context of conference affinity.

California = Tech/Defense industry = engineers. No surprise.

Also, I would NOT expect these to mirror student population. New Jersey and New York would be much higher on the list (and probably Delaware) because of proximity and public university limitations in those states. And California would be way, way down the list.

I was researching some alumni numbers by state for a thread over on the football board and found some interesting numbers. These came from the Alumni Association's "Virginia Tech Magazine" Summer 2013 edition. Excluding Virginia, these are the top states (ie: over 1,000) by number of VT alumni:

That distribution has a definite northeast flavor with 37,775 alumni coming from 11 northern states (including DC) that top 1,000 (MD,PA,NJ,NY,OH,WV,MA,IL,DC,CT,MI). Only 6 southern states have over 1,000 living alumni, for a total of 32,504 (NC,FL,TX,GA,TN,AL).

The biggest surprise: California comes in at number 3, behind only Maryland and North Carolina.

I would have to assume that the current student population is probably similarly distributed.

I just thought these were interesting numbers in the context of conference affinity.

I think they counted me as living, so the numbers may be a little off.

Also, I would NOT expect these to mirror student population. New Jersey and New York would be much higher on the list (and probably Delaware) because of proximity and public university limitations in those states. And California would be way, way down the list.

Interesting anecdotal evidence (not that anyone cares): I attended HS in California. I think there might have been one other student from CA at the time.

Funny story (not that anyone cares about this either): Freshman year, 5-hr Calc, Old Man Pace as Prof.

Pace: Ms. Dickinson, I understand why you would want to escape Podunk, Pennsylvania to come to Blacksburg.
Sarah Dickinson: Huh?
Pace: But, Mr. King of Hokies, why ... in the hell ... did you come here from California?!?
King of Hokies (intimidated and flustered): Wha? ... uh ... uh ... duh .....

I was researching some alumni numbers by state for a thread over on the football board and found some interesting numbers. These came from the Alumni Association's "Virginia Tech Magazine" Summer 2013 edition. Excluding Virginia, these are the top states (ie: over 1,000) by number of VT alumni:

That distribution has a definite northeast flavor with 37,775 alumni coming from 11 northern states (including DC) that top 1,000 (MD,PA,NJ,NY,OH,WV,MA,IL,DC,CT,MI). Only 6 southern states have over 1,000 living alumni, for a total of 32,504 (NC,FL,TX,GA,TN,AL).

The biggest surprise: California comes in at number 3, behind only Maryland and North Carolina.

I would have to assume that the current student population is probably similarly distributed.

I just thought these were interesting numbers in the context of conference affinity.

Interesting find. But I don't think there is necessarily a direct correlation to where the students are from. This just indicates where the jobs are and where students want to live after they graduate. Having said that, I do think we pull a lot students from the NE (i.e. MD, PA, NJ, NY).

Also, I would NOT expect these to mirror student population. New Jersey and New York would be much higher on the list (and probably Delaware) because of proximity and public university limitations in those states. And California would be way, way down the list.

I agree with this. I think most of the CA based alums moved there for work, but are originally from the east coast.

I'd use North Carolina as an example of where Alums percentage outnumbers student percentage. Due to proximity, there are a fair number of students from NC....but after graduation, Charlotte and the Research Triangle are popular job destinations for Hokies.